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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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